ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,493, issued on June 23, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis) and Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Real time monitoring and prediction of motion in MRI" was invented by Nico Dosenbach (St. Louis), Jonathan Koller (St. Louis), Andrew Van (St. Louis), Abraham Snyder (St. Louis), Amy Mirro (St. Louis), Damien Fair (Portland, Ore.), Eric Earl (Portland, Ore.), Rachel Klein (Portland, Ore.), Oscar Miranda Dominguez (Tigard, Ore.) and Anders Perrone (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer-readable storage devices, and systems are described for reducing movement of a patient undergoi...